Definition of Abhor

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Definition of Abhor

Abhor

To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.

To fill with horror or disgust.

To protest against; to reject solemnly.

To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with

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Abhor Quotations

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson

The American people abhor a vacuum.
Theodore Roosevelt

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
Desmond Tutu

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
Lyman Abbott

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Louis D. Brandeis

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
Mason Cooley

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.
Emanuel Celler

I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.
William Tyndale

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
Richard Dawson

Abhor Translations

abhor in Dutch is verafschuwen, een afschuw hebben van
abhor in Italian is avere in orrore
abhor in Norwegian is avsky
abhor in Spanish is renegar

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